Who was in life a foolish prating knave?

Polonius
Hamlet realizes he has killed the hapless Polonius rather than the king. Contemplating the corpse, he sums up the situation carelessly with the words, “Indeed, this counsellor is now most still, most secret, and most grave, who was in life a foolish prating knave.”

What is a rash and bloody deed?

Answer and Explanation: O, what a rash and bloody deed is this is said by Hamlet’s mother Gertrude in Act III, Scene 4, in response to Hamlet’s untimely and accidental murder… See full answer below.

Would it were not so you are my mother?

HAMLET: No, by the rood, not so: You are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife; And–would it were not so!– you are my mother.

Who said O Hamlet speak no more?

QUEEN GERTRUDE
QUEEN GERTRUDE: O, speak to me no more; These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears; No more, sweet Hamlet!

Who said withered when my father died?

Ophelia
Ophelia says of them: “I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died: they say he made a good end” (4.5. 184-186).

Who said Gertrude do not drink?

2. She has a suspicion which is confirmed by the panic in Claudius’ line “Gertrude, do not drink.” She would figure out that there’s poison in the cup and drink it anyway.

Why is it a woodcock?

When Laertes’ is cut by his own sword, again he speaks for Hamlet, “Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric. I am justly killed with mine own treachery.” Traps from which they cannot extricate themselves catch both Hamlet and Laertes.

What line is mother you have my father much offended?

Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. Mother, you have my father much offended. Gertrude is being more formal with Hamlet, putting some distance between them (much as the use of “we” by the King might), and Hamlet uses the familiar “you.” Of course, Gertrude refers to Claudius and Hamlet to Old Hamlet.

How came he dead I’ll not be juggled with?

How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with: To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!

How did Gertrude know the wine was poisoned?

Instead, Gertrude’s love for Claudius creates a thrilling twist to the closet scene in which he is revealed as a murderer. The final Act, in which she is clearly aware that the wine is poisoned, sees her sacrifice herself to save Hamlet.

How does Gertrude know the wine is poisoned?

2. She has a suspicion which is confirmed by the panic in Claudius’ line “Gertrude, do not drink.” She would figure out that there’s poison in the cup and drink it anyway. She’s discovered his treachery and doesn’t want to be a part of it.